Book Review: 'Elihu Yale' by Diana Scarisbrick and Benjamin Zucker

Yale University bears the name of one of the world's first super-managers, a child of the East India Co.

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Charles Dameron

July 3, 2014 8:42 p.m. ET

When Yale-NUS College opened its doors in Singapore last fall, it welcomed an eager crop of incoming students all banking on the value of a diploma with "Yale" printed on the sheepskin. A joint venture of the National University of Singapore and Yale University, the school is led by a former Yale English professor, but it is an entirely separate institution, strictly speaking.

Singapore's prime minister noted proudly at the college's groundbreaking that it is the first new institution of higher learning to bear...